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<blockquote data-quote="d20Dwarf" data-source="post: 672741" data-attributes="member: 314">This is wrong. You are saying that print publishers do not invest time...by your analysis, it should be PDF publishers invest time while print publishers invest time AND money (and a lot of money at that).I had some other quotes, but frankly I would be quoting the whole thing, since it was almost entirely false due to bad reasoning and/or knowledge (depending on which issue). Print publishers don't just send a product to the printers and voila! it magically gets to customers. They have to warehouse it, ship it, pay employees, deal with distributors, give a much larger discount than PDF publishers.....none of these things a PDF publisher has to worry about in any significant capacity.I wasn't going to weigh in on this again, but The Sigil's rant was just so full of falsehoods and faulty logic that I thought it needed to be called out.I got my start in this industry by being a part of a PDF project, but I never thought it was as good as a professionally produced book. And frankly, only the best PDF publications (that I've seen) can compare to mediocre or poor print products. The bar for entry and risk are both just too low to worry about getting it right.I'm not disparaging PDF products for WHAT THEY ARE, but to try to defend them as something they ARE NOT, comes across as a little addle-brained to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="d20Dwarf, post: 672741, member: 314"] This is wrong. You are saying that print publishers do not invest time...by your analysis, it should be PDF publishers invest time while print publishers invest time AND money (and a lot of money at that). I had some other quotes, but frankly I would be quoting the whole thing, since it was almost entirely false due to bad reasoning and/or knowledge (depending on which issue). Print publishers don't just send a product to the printers and voila! it magically gets to customers. They have to warehouse it, ship it, pay employees, deal with distributors, give a much larger discount than PDF publishers.....none of these things a PDF publisher has to worry about in any significant capacity. I wasn't going to weigh in on this again, but The Sigil's rant was just so full of falsehoods and faulty logic that I thought it needed to be called out. I got my start in this industry by being a part of a PDF project, but I never thought it was as good as a professionally produced book. And frankly, only the best PDF publications (that I've seen) can compare to mediocre or poor print products. The bar for entry and risk are both just too low to worry about getting it right. I'm not disparaging PDF products for WHAT THEY ARE, but to try to defend them as something they ARE NOT, comes across as a little addle-brained to me. [/QUOTE]

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